terraform-up-and-running-code VS homelab

Terraform: Up & Running. O'Reilly Media, Brikman, Y.

There’s a new edition of Terraform: Up & Running that was published last year.

Terraform: Up and Running - Excellent read on using Terraform

If you’re looking for general terraform this is your best bet https://www.terraformupandrunning.com

You should also check this out : https://github.com/brikis98/terraform-up-and-running-code/tree/3rd-edition. Its the companion repo to an actual book which i recommend as well but this series of blog posts by the author maps to the first five chapters of the book so you can explore and see if you want to splurge for the book.

OP, do this, I'm going through the 3rd edition right now to evaluate it as a teaching tool for my colleagues and all examples are up to date and his explanation style is fantastic. You can see he even made some recent updates to the repo 3 days ago: https://github.com/brikis98/terraform-up-and-running-code

K3s is great, I use it on all of my personal clusters (here and here). It's lightweight and very easy to manage.

https://github.com/khuedoan/homelab if you haven't come across it yet. To add to your bookmarks.

I have my Kubernetes homelab public on GitHub, everything is automated and defined as code. Hope it will help you get started and see what's possible.

So I 've got inspired by https://github.com/khuedoan/homelab and initially after lurking this sub for a while I came up with a plan to consider some of these solutions: - openmediavault as a VM to use 2x4TB /w ext4 & mergerFS or TrueNAS in RAID1 - I think mergerFS gives more options to increase storage with extra drives later, but I don't plan to hoard lots of data. Also rather opted for tiered cache via SSD to save some power but if such lot of VMs would write this would work? - nextcloud VM to easiely manage files via browser and have mobile app sync for photos with some kind of gallery plugins etc - I think this may be optional if there's other solution as nextcloud seems to not be light. Or something like Seafile would be enough? - kubernetes - k3s/microk8s single VM node or 2 VM nodes - would I need more? and so - can then openmediavault be used as a storage for it like TrueNAS? - Rancher - if used k3s - I quite liked the UI of rancher desktop, more than portainer when I tried with microk8s, but I don't pass on using something else, eg. Lens - Gitea - for hosting code - tekton / teamcity - for running tests and commit build hooks - fluxCD / argoCD - for deploying builds to kubernetes

khuedoan/homelab

Here's my project (running on 4 mini PC) that I'm using for learning and self-hosting https://github.com/khuedoan/homelab, it's fully automated from empty disk to operating services.

You can checkout my repo If you'd like to do the same for your homelab (it's also modular so you can just use the OS installation part)

Here're the links to the Markdown source and the web view.

You can checkout my Kubernetes homelab, it's fully automated from empty disk, very customizable and extensible.

You can view the code here: https://github.com/khuedoan/homelab (the ./metal folder)